Not everything on the agenda for Mon day’s special legislative session will revolve around New York state’s parlous fiscal circumstances.

Gov. Paterson plans to ask the Senate and the Assembly to rename the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel after one of his more illustrious predecessors, Hugh Carey, who served from 1975 to 1982.

It’s an honor that is both well-deserved and of great symbolic significance.

No other elected official did more to rescue New York — city and state — from the mid-’70s fiscal crisis than Hugh Leo Carey. What could be more appropriate than to recognize that achievement as New York slips back toward the abyss?

Think Hugh Carey, role model.

Moreover, naming the tunnel after Carey — now 91 and ailing — is apt, given that he came to Manhattan as governor, so to speak, after serving seven terms as a congressman from Brooklyn.

It’s time for the Legislature to do right by Hugh Carey and approve this tribute without delay.